John McCloy
The American who let the Nazis rebuild Germany
John McCloy freed Hitler’s favourite industrialists. Their firms still dominate the country’s economy
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Doing shots
You can tell a lot about someone from their favourite Henry wife
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Cecilia Featherstonehaugh
Posh publisher
Without a twist
This weather-based thriller is all hot air, but who doesn’t enjoy a warm summer breeze?
The scourge of EDI
It is patronising, divisive and anti-meritocratic
Women have bad odds with Dodds
This appointment is an insult from Keir Starmer
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
The problem with precarity
Professional insecurity is harming workers and institutions alike
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
The UK’s war on free speech
Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour government desperate to clamp down on opinion
